Did it contain large pieces of orange peel? I had one Christmas tea that I could only drink after removing the pieces of peel and mixing the remainder with something like a boring Kenyan tea (thus killing two birds with one stone).

A far more pleasant Christmas tea was one flavoured with nothing more than dried cranberries and toffee. Remarkably the taste was as delicious as the enticing aroma promised. Usually flavoured teas smell nice but the taste leaves something to be desired.